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Best way to seal cracked lintel. 3 options. Opinions please?

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Hi

 

Could I get peopled advice and opinions plesse?

 

Basically lintel has minor crack in it and builder has give the following 3 options.

 

Which is best?

 

1) put a resin in so it goes hard or

 

2) seal it with water repellent silicone or

 

3) put rapid setting cement in

 

Views anyone???

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Lintel is where exactly?

 

They gave you three options but did he not indicate which is the best course of action?

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1st floor bedroom.

 

He suggested we go with the cement....

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1st floor bedroom.

 

He suggested we go with the cement....

 

Sounds like he's just putting a plaster over it instead of doing it proper unless the crack is very minor

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He said will fill it with Rapid setting cement. What's the proper way?

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He said will fill it with Rapid setting cement. What's the proper way?

 

I would say best way to sort it would be renew said lintel ,easier said than Done I will admit

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Replacing is more expensive....rather repair it..

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Replacing is more expensive....rather repair it..

 

I'd rather pay more and have it done right than have it bodged (not saying the builder is a bodge artist)

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The lintel will have cracked because the steel rebar has rusted then expanded and blown the concrete.

Replacement is your only option unless you want to waste money.

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The lintel will have cracked because the steel rebar has rusted then expanded and blown the concrete.

Replacement is your only option unless you want to waste money.

 

Could be a stone lintel.

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It is concrete tbh with a horizontal crack which I'm told should be okay to be repaired for a few hrs perhaps

Edited by Tee1
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Had same problem with a lintel on my back garage door. Builder fixed it by inserting an L shaped steel reinforcement, which would sit on the bricks where the lintel did.

Something like in the picture:

 

http://www.iqbuildersmerchant.com/ekmps/shops/01cfc4/images/birtley-mbl-light-duty-external-wall-lintel-93010-p.jpg

 

Did not take the lintel out, just filled with resin and inserted the steel to embrace the back and below, and grinding about 2mm between concrete lintel and bricks, enough to push in the steel

 

MV

Edited by MaxVinella

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